Northeastern Brazilian Shelf-Edge Zone - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Northeastern Brazilian Shelf-Edge Zone

Statistics

Occurrence records	6,174
Species level	4,579
Species	1,469
Taxa	1,987
Datasets	71
Time range	1872 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	9
No WoRMS match	574
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	26
No accepted name available	237

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	4,626	39
eventDate	520	0
maximumDepthInMeters	9,936	3
minimumDepthInMeters	2,800	15
occurrenceStatus	3,256	0
scientificName	718	0
scientificNameID	1,057	53

Spatial issues

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	1,574

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Controlling Parameters of Benthic Deep-Sea Foraminiferal Biogeography at the Brazilian Continental Margin (11-22°S) Published 2022-09-29	781
Abundance data of large microzooplankton collected during the ABRACOS 1 and 2 surveys performed along the northeast Brazilian continental shelf, slope and open ocean Published 2025-03-20	715
Benthic biodiversity along the central coast in the Brazilian EEZ (OBIS South America, BRAZIL) Published 2021-07-02	637
UFPE Oceanography Zooplankton Research Published 2021-07-02	495
BIOGEOMAR \| Marine Invertebrates \| Bryozoa Published 2022-12-15	311
Happywhale - Humpback whale in South Atlantic Ocean Published 2025-03-17	305
ReefSYN \| Standardized datasets of Brazilian reef diversity in space and time - Dataset XVI: Benthic communities from Rio Grande do Norte Published 2024-07-03	248
Coleção Ictiológica (MNRJ), Museu Nacional (MN), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro(UFRJ) Published 2025-03-23	227
Previous Fisheries REVIZEE Program Published 2021-07-02	188
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections Published	187

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa

Scientific name	Records
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	307
Porifera Grant, 1836 Phylum Porifera	78
Canistrocarpus cervicornis (Kützing) De Paula & De Clerck, 2006 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	74
Dictyopteris plagiogramma (Montagne) Vickers, 1905 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	39
Reptadeonella leilae Almeida, Souza, Sanner & Vieira, 2015 Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata	33
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	29
Limacinidae Gray, 1840 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	28
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny, 1839 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	28
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny, 1826 Phylum Foraminifera > Class Globothalamea	23
Thunnus atlanticus (Lesson, 1831) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	23

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2022
Lissodendoryx (Waldoschmittia) almeidai Barros, Cavalcanti, Hajdu & Pinheiro, 2023 Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	2	2018
Dictyota mertensii (C.Martius) Kützing, 1859 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	11	2017
Acanthurus chirurgus (Bloch, 1787) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	8	2017
Ircinia felix (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	10	2017
Bodianus rufus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	16	2017
Thalassoma noronhanum (Boulenger, 1890) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	13	2017
Chromis multilineata (Guichenot, 1853) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	9	2017
Canistrocarpus cervicornis (Kützing) De Paula & De Clerck, 2006 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	74	2017
Tintinnopsis tocantinensis Kofoid & Campbell, 1929 Phylum Ciliophora > Class Oligotrichea	7	2017

Data providers

Name	Records
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	2,115
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee	1,155
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA)	1,062
University of Applied Science, Cologne	781
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, IFREMER, Centre de Brest	715
IRD-CNRS;Unité Mixte de Recherche MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation	715
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Department of Oceanography	715
Duke University	374
Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira - IEAPM	369
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense	360